An interesting problem with 3.8.18

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   From the traffic I see on the mail list perhaps no one's interested in
> 3.8.18 any more, but I just had a strange experience and I'd like to
> understand it so I don't repeat the situation.
>
>   On my client workstation my fiancee was logged in and left for lunch. So,
> I tried the lock button widget on the control panel to blank the screen. As
> this is what I do on my server/workstation all the time and it does just
> fine, I expected the other box to behave the same way.
>
>   Wrong. It locked the monitor all right, but it didn't blank it. As a
> matter of fact, the monitor was locked so tightly that I couldn't clear it
> remotely by ssh'ing in and killing processes! Like a teenager, it completely
> ignored me and (of course) the trackball and keyboard were ignored.
>
>   Has anyone an idea of why this might have happened?

sounds like X crashed.  Have you checked ~/.xsession-errors

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